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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It means more jobs going to Fairfax over Maryland.  It means no road expansion.  It means buses from Frederick that no one will take.  It means more people driving on the beltway into Virginia to work at the jobs that won't come to MoCo.[/quote]

And you know this because??[/quote]

Because that's basically what he campaigned on?  He didn't say that he wants to create jobs in Northern VA obviously but that will be the results of policies making it harder to build.[/quote]

Build more houses...He doesn't want to continue building and building and building more houses in places especially far from transit because we don't have the infrastructure yet to support it.   And I live in Clarksburg and agree with him! Look at 270. He actually has a better solution to transit vs solely widening 270 which would cost uber millions of dollars. Call him what you want but he is not anti-jobs. [/quote]

I agree with that. Listen, if the bus rapid transit system works, that's awesome. I'm just skeptical it'll work, but I still voted for Elrich because I definitely think we need to make developers pay more for the infrastructure needs their developments produce.

Frankly, what we really need is to extend the purple line so that it connects with the silver line and also build a line that starts at the Glenmont station, goes out to the Shady Grove station, stretches across upcounty MoCo, and then connects to Dulles, where they're building a silver line station anyway. It would be like a second beltway, but in the form of public transit. The problem is the ag reserve, but it would solve perhaps the area's biggest transit problem: the fact that, outside the District, there is basically ONE way to get between MD and VA.  [/quote]

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